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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I. If you will paint a good Prince, you shall deline some celestial wight, liker to a God than to a man; absolute in all the numbers of virtues; given for the good of all, yea given from them above to support the affairs of mortals; who being most discerning observeth all, and looketh to all; to whom nothing is more regarded, nothing sweeter than the Commonweal; who hath more than a Fatherly mind to all; to whom every ones life is dearer than his own; who day and night doth and endeavoureth nothing else but that it may be very well with all; who hath rewards ready for all good men; and pardon to the bad, sobeit they will amend; who desireth so freely to deserve well of his subjects, that if it be needful, he will not stick to look to their safety by his own danger; who taketh the profit of his ⟨p. 131⟩country for his gain; who always waketh that others may sleep; who leaveth himself no quiet (otium) that his country may live in quietness; who disquieteth himself with successive cares, that his Citizens may enjoy tranquillity; lastly, on whose virtue dependeth the public felicity.
I. If you will paint a good Prince, you shall deline some celestial wight, liker to a God than to a man; absolute in all the numbers of vertues; given for the good of all, yea given from them above to support the affairs of mortals; who being most discerning observeth all, and looketh to all; to whom nothing is more regarded, nothing sweeter than the Commonweal; who hath more than a Fatherly mind to all; to whom every ones life is dearer than his own; who day and night doth and endeavoureth nothing else but that it may be very well with all; who hath rewards ready for all good men; and pardon to the bad, sobeit they will amend; who desireth so freely to deserve well of his subjects, that if it be needful, he will not stick to look to their safety by his own danger; who taketh the profit of his ⟨p. 131⟩countrey for his gain; who always waketh that others may sleep; who leaveth himself no quiet (otium) that his country may live in quietness; who disquieteth himself with successive cares, that his Citizens may enjoy tranquillity; lastly, on whose virtue dependeth the publick felicity.